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Please update your bookmarks, because the new url of this blog is http://khason.net/ (you have not update RSS feeds, it will be done automatically). Why I did it? Why I decided to go to “stand-alone”… Well. there are some reasons. Generally, I do not want to explain all those here, but trust me, there are some. The main reason is, that there is no responsible person in charge for this blog platform in Microsoft Israel. This why, if your blog is popular and you have a respect to your blog visitors...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/the-original-tetris-on-windows-vista/ ] For last days I’m very busy with Bidi support for Silverlight development . Working a lot of hours in order to finish it until TechEd . So, I’m very tired and need relaxation. What can be better, then Tetris? But, there are millions of Tetrises. What to choose? What’s the question? The original one . This genius game was developed by Vadim Gerasimov...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/backup-and-restore-your-wireless-networks-settings-by-using-wirelessmigrator/ ] I had to reinstall my working notebook, so I begun to backup all it’s settings. I almost finished, when recognize, that Windows Vista has no tool for backup and restore wireless networks settings (tnx to Daniel Petri ). You can manually add or remove it. You can even change the priorities, but you cannot backup...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/openup-sidebar-gadget/ ] OpenUp competition is on the air? Authors of contributed projects are stressed and want to know what’s going on with their pet project on CodePlex . What can they do about stress? To get it under control and download new gadget , I built to help them to relieve stress. Just look on your side bar and see three top rated projects (by CodePlex) Click on it or drag...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/what%e2%80%99s-new-in-msdn-downloads/ ] Just look how many new releases those days in MSDN Download web site. Virtual PC 2007 SP1 – download and release notes Scriptomatic 2.0 - download (uses PowerShell 1.0) Windows PowerShell V2 CTP2 - download Office Live Update 1.1 - download .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 beta – download Visual Studio 2008 SP1 beta - download Microsoft Expression Blend 2...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/gas-price-windows-vista-sidebar-gadget-%e2%80%93-new-version-is-available-for-download/ ] This post is dedicated to some people in Microsoft and it’s subsidiaries. It begun about year ago, when I developed Gas Price information gadget (do not download it there). Before I started, I sent some personal email to those in MSN, who maintains it’s Auto section. I wait two days and got no response...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/just-in-case-%e2%80%93-shutdownexe-with-rich-user-experience-it-has-it-for-real/ ] If you love command line applications, skip this post. Did you know, that simple base program, named “shutdown.exe” has it’s own UI? This application allows you to restart you (or neightbor’s) computer by using different command line switches. One of those switches is –i. So, if you do not like command...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/some-new-post-mix-downloads/ ] Today is download day at MSDN. There are some very interesting things published. New release of Windows SDK (new classes for WPF 3.5, bugs fixes, and enhanced support for Windows Server 2008, including speech, error reporting and UAC). Download it here . For more information, visit SDK blog Windows XP SP3 RC2 (it's not final release ), but if you want...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/a-couple-of-updates-mega-update-post/ ] Today, only updates Yahoo finally releases Yahoo! Messenger for Vista - this was one of very first prototypes, shown in Mix last year. I did not install it, however, here a couple of review Erik Burke , Tim Sneath and Ryan Stewart . As for me, they lost "wow effect" last year Microsoft Expression Blend 2 - December Preview . What's...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/as-promised-i-reinstall-my-laptop-with-windows-vista-64bit/ ] I decided to reinstall my D820 with 64 bit version of Windows Vista as involvement act with Gadi . 13 minutes of installation. All hardware was found and all drivers were installed (this why I love Dell). The same score as was with 32 bit version - 3.2. Fist run of Windows Update = 38 fixes (about 130MB, only required updates...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/find-similar-images-on-your-computer-with-duplicate-images-finder-alpha/ ] I wrote a lot of image (and not only image) processing algorithms. Most of them were for military proposes. Almost all of them are not secret, so why not to use war technologies for peace manners? Sitting one of those long evenings, I wrote a simple application, that seeks for similar (not by name of cause) images...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/action-required-battery-tracker-download-new-version/ ] Less, then 12 hours and more then 2500 downloads - that's the verdict for this tool . Awareness, there are some critical bugs found in Battery Tracker. Please download the new version (from the same location) and replace the version on your computer. This is required action, due the version from August, 29th has number of bugs...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/battery-tracker-power-management-and-battery-tracing-tool/ ] A lot of people ask me about how to measure power charging or discharging rate. How to know the quality of your battery and power needs of operating system. How to be sure, that Vista Battery Saver really helps to prolong your battery life and detect exactly how it prolongs it. Two evenings and I wrote small utility, that helps...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/how-to-test-localized-application/ ] You finished writing World-Ready application . It detects current system culture, or possibly, UI culture, or, even Region and change it's layout language to language, detected with those methods. Now, you want to test it on different locales. What to do? You can go to test PC or, if you're advanced user, install virtual PC images and test...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/italian-locale-for-vista-battery-saver/ ] Grazie to Andrea Dellamonica from Tisource for Italian translation of Vista Battery Saver . Get latest installer from CodePlex (some minor fixes there) I want to purchase Code Signing Digital ID for VBS to sign code and pass Certified for Vista. There are more, then 500K installation of this software. All we need is 99$ (simple certificate) or...
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